Pro-Bush PAC funds major ad campaign

DES MOINES, Iowa — The heavily funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a major TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor’s bid for the Republican nomination.

The plan, shared by the group with the Associated Press before Monday’s buy, is the first evidence of Right to Rise USA’s strategic spending of the roughly $100 million it had on hand last month.

The group has already aired one online ad that points to Bush’s release of decades of tax returns and publication of thousands of e-mails sent during his time as governor, to draw comparisons with Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, who recently turned over her private e-mail server to the FBI under pressure.

[...] before declaring his candidacy, Bush was involved in fundraising for Right to Rise USA, while Murphy planned a long-term strategy where the super PAC would complement the campaign, which is bound by fundraising restrictions that don’t apply to super PACs.